cck-02982 The movie was well put together other than the fact that Self Defense was never mentioned as a defense for Ford's character. In the real world, no one would have been convicted or imprisoned for punching someone and causing their death under the same circumstances. Due to this exaggeration, I almost turned the movie off after about ten minutes. I'm glad I stuck with it because it turned out to be a decent movie.

rightwingisevil why the district attorney had a soft spot for this specific young man who accidentally hit a man and caused him death? why the district attorney's daughter also had a soft spot for this guy from the very beginning? why this district attorney then became the warden where this young guy was jailed? in nowadays reality, how it possible those arrangements by the new warden could favor to certain prisoners? and how convenient that the district attorney's and then the warden's daughter, an unique beautiful woman would never have a sweetheart or even got married but remained a spinster who only seemed to love the convicted man so subtly albeit so obviously? do you think that a strong-willed district attorney would have encouraged his daughter to befriend a convict felon wholeheartedly from the very beginning? well, unless his daughter was an ugly woman or a crippled woman then this could have been possible, other than that, a normal law enforcer father would never have his beautiful daughter to be near to a convicted fellow. then again, once became a warden, suddenly his home would be in or close to the prison? and he would have the privilege to allow several prisoners to be at his personal service? givemeabreak, will you? this film is just an utopia- like, completely cosmetically beautified picture to show an unrealistic and totally unlikely scenario to suit the purpose of this film. the whole screenplay was like a mirage, if you could believe it, you could believe anything is possible and a carpenter's son could walk on water other than that British street magician, dynamo.

Michael_Elliott Convicted (1951) ** 1/2 (out of 4) A war hero (Glenn Ford) gets into a drunken fight when he punches a guy, which eventually leads to his death. The local D.A. and future warden (Broderick Crawford) believes the man when he said it was an accident so he quickly tries to help him get paroled and adjust to prison life. The two leads offer up very good performances but that's about the only original spin in this film as the screenplay is held down with cliché story lines that we've seen in countless other movies. We get the normal stuff of an inmate who hates one of the guards, the big escape and of course you typical fights. All of this stuff comes off rather standard but Ford and Crawford deliver performances that keep the film going strong through the rather silly ending. I was really impressed with the performance by Ford as I haven't seen him give this type of performance before. I think it's also worth noting that his performance here seems to have had an influence on Charles Bronson and especially his films of the 1970s.

Martie4fun I thought this movie was well acted Great casting! Too bad they don't make sequels to many of the older movies such as this one. It would be great to follow the lives of the characters, after the ending of the movie!